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DescriptionLion distribution.png	Euskara: Lehoien banaketa: Berdez gaur egun, gorriz historikoki. Suomi: Leijonan levinneisyys vanhalla ajalla. English: Geographical distribution of lions. Red (and blue) shows areas historically inhabited, blue shows areas currently inhabited. Italiano: Areale storico (in rosso) ed attuale (in blu). Русский: Ареал льва
Date	24 August 2009, 21:02 (UTC)
Source	Own work using: The present distribution in Africa is based upon a map created by 'The African Lion Environmental Research Trust (ALERT) which can be viewed here. http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/lion-reintroduction.html#cr. While I consider this a reliable source, I researched two countries in depth to verify this, Uganda and Namibia. The map is indeed correctly shaded in the National Parks where lions are present. However I did not include the 'Occasional' shaded areas as these are obviously much more ambiguous. For the historic distribution, which will never be completely accurate, I used information here on Wikipedia with its own sources.
Author	Tommyknocker (talk)
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current	11:51, 22 March 2018	880 × 768 (51 KB)	Maphobbyist	Check
	11:23, 22 March 2018	880 × 768 (51 KB)	Maphobbyist	South Sudan border
	01:07, 15 May 2012	880 × 768 (33 KB)	Ras67	cropped, optimized
	14:06, 19 April 2010	882 × 770 (59 KB)	MPF	Change red/green to red/blue to avoid problems for viewers with red-green colourblindness
	20:00, 11 January 2010	882 × 770 (44 KB)	Tommyknocker	Distribution in Southern Europe during historical times controversial, therefore now represented with question marks.
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